Facebook: Sri Lankans complain against facebook

[lkdood]

Sri Lankan officials said Wednesday that they have received more than 1,000 complaints against the social media network facebook.

The U.S.-based facebook is popular in Sri Lanka and is used extensively by locals both young and old as well as by several local institutions and companies.

However a Sri Lankan government-run agency said it continued to receive complaints of users abusing facebook by hacking into other people's accounts or copying images.

"We have received over 1,000 complaints against facebook. We advise facebook users to complain to the U.S. company if they feel their privacy has been violated. If facebook does not respond then we will investigate," Rohana Palliyaguru, senior information security engineer of the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response unit told Xinhua.

The agency has been receiving complaints of people hacking into profiles of young girls and changing their status, taking their pictures and creating fake profiles and threatening users for ransom.

Officials also said that some of the most serious cases are being investigated by the Sri Lankan police criminal investigations unit.

DM/Xinhua

 

[roshancs05]

Thanx 4 the info bro

 

[Mal Baba]

ammowaaaaaaaaa

 

[prasadana2]

haiyo... lankawa dan duinui cyber crimes ut wadi..

 

[කලු පූසා]

FB ban weida? :S

 

[lkdood]

Thanx 4 the info bro

 

[chirantha7777]

Here is main facts of the problem :

1. Lack of knowledge to tackle the situtation... People don't know how to write to Facebook and complain... so they dial 119 and complain

2. Language barrier... people write "mage profile eke nemi oka.. ane mokak hari karanna"... many people at Facebook won't understand a word.

3. A person with basic computer knowledge can write a keylogger to send his PC data... When installed at Cybercafe's its a nice mixture..

4. People don't use backspace + arrow navigated techniques on password which hampers keylogging capability.

5. People use directory words as password...

6. People use their NIC no... or mobile phone number as passwords

7. People use there parents names as passwords.

8. Girls and boys of the country should learn to speak and ask for help... instead of crying in bed at night because their account got hacked...

These above facts needs to get into the media.. the people shouldn't thinking of BANNING Facebook but should learn to protect there accounts.

The MEDIA as I said many times before should STOP WASHING THE ASSES OF POLITICS and work to build a better country!!!

 

[Thuzanga]

 

[lkdood]

ammowaaaaaaaaa